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Gender and Campaign Fundraising: How do Female Candidates Finance their Campaigns?

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Conference Paper

Citation

Skulley, Carrie, Gender and Campaign Fundraising: How do Female Candidates Finance their Campaigns? - See more at: http://www.mpsanet.org/Conference/ConferencePaperArchive/tabid/681/year/2014/p/2/Default.aspx?q=%22campaign+finance%22#sthash.m1K13Qr6.dpuf.

Abstract

How do female candidates finance their campaigns? Past research on gender and campaign finance has typically focused on two areas. First, research has focused on comparing differences between male and female candidates and second, these studies usually evaluate fundraising in the aggregate. That is, studies often examine the total amount of money raised between male and female candidates during an election. These studies often conclude that men and women raise similar amounts of money in an election, but these results overlook differences in the sources of campaign financing as well as the differences between subgroups of men and women. Using the newly available Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections, I explore the differences in how Democratic and Republican women raised funds on the 2010 campaign trail. My results suggest that there are important, and often overlooked differences between Democratic and Republican women and that these differences have serious electoral implications.